A Day of Guided Reading in 3rd Grade

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A Day of Guided Reading in 3rd Grade

• Hart Elementary School
• April 3rd, 2008
• Andrea Frasier

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Guided Reading What Why?

• 3rd grade teachers spent the day immersed in
  discussing, organizing, and planning guided
  reading
• We began by reading an article about guided
  reading and discussed it using a reciprocal
  teaching strategy

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Organizing Groups

• Each teacher brought their DRA scores.
• We looked at scores to determine guided reading
  groups.
• Students organized groups on a chart and
  developed a plan for managing the groups.

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Selecting Books
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A Trip to the Book Room!
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Teachers Used The Charts to Select Books for
Guided Reading Lessons
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A Model Lesson

• I modeled a guided reading lesson in a 3rd grade
  classroom.
• I used the text Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe.

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Activating Background Knowledge

• I shared background knowledge that I had for
  catching fireflies.
• Students recorded background knowledge they had
  on a post-it. Then we shared.

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I displayed their post-its on the chart to show
that I valued their thinking to make it visible
for others.
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Vocabulary
We discussed the meaning of some important words
from the story and shared examples of what these
verbs looked liked in action.
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Making Predictions
I previewed the text with a picture walk. We
recorded our predictions on the chart.
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Inferring the Lesson Learned

• Students read the text silently and independently
• The objective was to use the actions and words of
  the character to infer the lesson he learned in
  the story
• I listened and took notes as each student
  whisper-read portions of the text to to me

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Post-Reading

• Students who finished reading, recorded evidence
  from the text on the response chart
• They selected details to show how the character
  felt at the beginning, middle, and end of the
  story
• We confirmed predictions and discussed the lesson
  learned by the character

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Debrief

• Teachers shared notes/observations they made.

• I reported out first about the lesson.

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Leveling Books
They used a website to identify the levels of
some of their books.
3rd grade teachers brought in books from their
classrooms.
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Organizing Books
The teachers organized many of the texts by color
coding baskets.
Not all books are organized by level! Some are by
author, genre, topic, etc.!!!!